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Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America
by Benjamin Woolley
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ISBN: 9780060090579 • Publisher: HarperCollins • Year: 2007
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🌐 [color=#55acee]Language: English
Description: From Publishers Weekly
This highly readable account of the founding of Jamestown moves from the English throne to the daily struggles of the colony’s first settlers and the experience of Virginia’s Indians as their relations with colonists became increasingly strained. Here are the famous tales from early Virginia, like Pocahontas’s marriage to John Rolfe. But well-known explorers sit cheek by jowl with fascinating, lesser-known people, such as the colonists’ wives, who consulted an astrologer to reassure themselves about their husbands’ fate on the open seas. Woolley emphasizes both the financial and religious aims of colonization: English backers expected to get rich on the bounty the settlers would uncover and produce (though the first ships of wood and iron ore sent back disappointed the London Company). But Englishmen also saw Virginia as a "religious mission," an opportunity to spread Protestantism abroad. Woolley persuasively argues that the settlers’ aggressive response to a 1623 Indian attack became the "defining moment" in the history of English settlement of Virginia-it was through this event, more than any other, that the colonists articulated their connection to their new land and "crafted and honed their American identity." Woolley blends nuanced analysis with fast-paced narrative. 16 pages of color illus. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.From Booklist
The 400th anniversary of the first American colony has stimulated renewed interest in the Jamestown settlement. Woolley tackles his subject with the same type of narrative gusto displayed by Nathaniel Philbrick in his best-selling Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (2006). Like Philbrick, his treatment of a legendary event and era in American history is comprehensive and myth shattering. In addition to analyzing the economic, social, and cultural roots of the fledgling colony, all the major historical players–and quite a few of the minor ones–are given their due. Approaching his subject from a number of angles, Woolley presents a revisionist portrait of the Jamestown colony. Without resorting to pedestrian platitudes, he evokes a stirring epic in American history in all its greed, gore, and glory. Margaret Flanagan
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